228294 - visit website with favicon.ico without any tabs open, site icon disappears on opening a new tab

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 109959

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[ken lewis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

www.mozilla.org and www.slashdot.org have icons by their URL in the location
bar.  When I load these sites in tab-less windows, their icons appear.  On
adding a new tab to these windows, the icons disappear.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open new browser window, no tabs.
2.go to site with a favicon.ico or 'link rel="icon"' icon
3.open new tab in this window. icon disappears from tab and from location bar
(4.if loading a site with icon in new tab, its icon appears fine)

Actual Results:  
The first of the 2 tabs in the window has no icon by its location or in the tab
title.  (If loading a site with an icon, that appears)

Expected Results:  
The first tab should retain its icon, the new tab will load an icon depending on
the site it is navigating.

theme: modern
installed extensions: uk-gb language and MozGuest

Comment 1

[Christian Hamacher]

I'm quite sure that this is another dupe of bug 109959 - there is a whole bunch
of things you can do to make the favicon disappear. I'm convinced that all of
them have the same root cause.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 109959 ***